Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Giving dates is so thorny. Paul said that when they say peace and security then sudden destruction comes on them. Yesterday Biden is in the Middle East, cutting a deal to steal half of Israel away from the Jews while saying Peace and security. Without any doubt that is a fulfillment of this prophecy and without any doubt sudden destruction will come upon them. But what exactly does "sudden" mean to a God who views 1 day as a thousand years?
In China we see a run on the banks and a mortgage bubble on the same scale as the 2008 mortgage meltdown. We have seen that huge real estate companies are bankrupt, and we have seen that the banks in China are corrupt. Now we see the Chinese people refusing to pay their mortgages and so this entire house of cards will collapse. Will that happen this weekend? If you saw the movie "The Big Short" one of the key themes was that the collapse was inevitable but because of the lies and deceit it took place at least a month later than it should have.
Jesus said that people would be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day came of the flood and took them all away. The picture is that prior to the rapture all is going along "normally" like nothing is happening, and as soon as the rapture takes place it is as though God pulled his finger out of the dike and the entire Jenga of the world's economy collapses. What I find interesting about that is that beginning on Tammuz 17 you have a 3 week fast when you would not expect the Jews to be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. True, Noah was not a Jew and the world does not have that tradition, but Jesus said "it would be like those days" not that it is the same as those days. If we are talking about Jews then you would expect Tammuz 17 to begin three weeks when this prophecy would not apply.
So we are running out of time. We have tremendous Biblical evidence that the rapture takes place in this year ending with Rosh Hashanah at the end of September. We also have prophecies that seem to suggest it would take place prior to Tammuz 17 or after 9th of AV. Since Tammuz 17 begins in a day or so, maybe even less, let's look at that first.
My best estimate is that Tammuz 17 begins at sunset on July 16th, Jerusalem time. That is around 1pm EST on July 16th, or about six hours from now. Tammuz 17 ends on sunset of July 17, Jerusalem time. I like the rapture taking place at sunset since it is the "twinkling of the eye" and also because at sunset in Jerusalem it would be when the sun had risen in California (the equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah) which was the time that fire fell (it was in the morning but after the sun had risen). However, these are estimates on the day, there is quite a lot of dispute over the correct calendar. Personally I like the Lord returning on the Lord's day since that is the one day in the NT the church has been given to keep.
But what about after the 9th of Av. The biggest issue with that for me is that by far the best day for the Antichrist to be released is the 9th of Av based on Noah releasing the raven. We again have Paul saying that after the restrainer steps aside the spirit of Antichrist is released and revealed to the world. The problem I have is that if the Antichrist is released on the 9th of Av then the rapture should take place before that, and before that people are not eating and drinking, they are not marrying and giving in marriage. Of course we are only talking about Jews and Jesus could have been referring to those in the world. Another possibility is that even though the spirit of Antichrist is released from the boat doesn't mean the restrainer has stepped aside yet.
Thus in conclusion I agree with Pastor Sandy that this is the year of the rapture and it will take place prior to Rosh Hashanah. I also think that the next 32 hours is the best possible time. On the other hand Dr. Barry Awe thinks that 9th of Av is the best time. I suppose this means the theory of imminence continues to win even up to the present.
Giving dates is so thorny. Paul said that when they say peace and security then sudden destruction comes on them. Yesterday Biden is in the Middle East, cutting a deal to steal half of Israel away from the Jews while saying Peace and security. Without any doubt that is a fulfillment of this prophecy and without any doubt sudden destruction will come upon them. But what exactly does "sudden" mean to a God who views 1 day as a thousand years?
In China we see a run on the banks and a mortgage bubble on the same scale as the 2008 mortgage meltdown. We have seen that huge real estate companies are bankrupt, and we have seen that the banks in China are corrupt. Now we see the Chinese people refusing to pay their mortgages and so this entire house of cards will collapse. Will that happen this weekend? If you saw the movie "The Big Short" one of the key themes was that the collapse was inevitable but because of the lies and deceit it took place at least a month later than it should have.
Jesus said that people would be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day came of the flood and took them all away. The picture is that prior to the rapture all is going along "normally" like nothing is happening, and as soon as the rapture takes place it is as though God pulled his finger out of the dike and the entire Jenga of the world's economy collapses. What I find interesting about that is that beginning on Tammuz 17 you have a 3 week fast when you would not expect the Jews to be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. True, Noah was not a Jew and the world does not have that tradition, but Jesus said "it would be like those days" not that it is the same as those days. If we are talking about Jews then you would expect Tammuz 17 to begin three weeks when this prophecy would not apply.
So we are running out of time. We have tremendous Biblical evidence that the rapture takes place in this year ending with Rosh Hashanah at the end of September. We also have prophecies that seem to suggest it would take place prior to Tammuz 17 or after 9th of AV. Since Tammuz 17 begins in a day or so, maybe even less, let's look at that first.
My best estimate is that Tammuz 17 begins at sunset on July 16th, Jerusalem time. That is around 1pm EST on July 16th, or about six hours from now. Tammuz 17 ends on sunset of July 17, Jerusalem time. I like the rapture taking place at sunset since it is the "twinkling of the eye" and also because at sunset in Jerusalem it would be when the sun had risen in California (the equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah) which was the time that fire fell (it was in the morning but after the sun had risen). However, these are estimates on the day, there is quite a lot of dispute over the correct calendar. Personally I like the Lord returning on the Lord's day since that is the one day in the NT the church has been given to keep.
But what about after the 9th of Av. The biggest issue with that for me is that by far the best day for the Antichrist to be released is the 9th of Av based on Noah releasing the raven. We again have Paul saying that after the restrainer steps aside the spirit of Antichrist is released and revealed to the world. The problem I have is that if the Antichrist is released on the 9th of Av then the rapture should take place before that, and before that people are not eating and drinking, they are not marrying and giving in marriage. Of course we are only talking about Jews and Jesus could have been referring to those in the world. Another possibility is that even though the spirit of Antichrist is released from the boat doesn't mean the restrainer has stepped aside yet.
Thus in conclusion I agree with Pastor Sandy that this is the year of the rapture and it will take place prior to Rosh Hashanah. I also think that the next 32 hours is the best possible time. On the other hand Dr. Barry Awe thinks that 9th of Av is the best time. I suppose this means the theory of imminence continues to win even up to the present.
We should have been fasting, praying and mourning
The way I read the Lord's word about how everyone was just going along like everything is normal right up until the flood hits is that they shouldn't have been. If they had been fasting, and praying and mourning they would have not been asleep and caught by surprise.
Therefore I think, again simple interpretation of the Bible, that July 17th sunset Jerusalem time is the better of the two options. July 16th at sunset would be the time you were supposed to begin fasting and praying and mourning. So at that point there is no implied error in the fact that prior to this moment they weren't. but 24 hours later if they are still partying there is an implied insult to God.
Jesus said "blessed are those that mourn for they shall be comforted". This is very close to the very first word of the NT to us. So I think the rapture will be a comfort to those that mourn and a judgement on those that don't.
The way I read the Lord's word about how everyone was just going along like everything is normal right up until the flood hits is that they shouldn't have been. If they had been fasting, and praying and mourning they would have not been asleep and caught by surprise.
Therefore I think, again simple interpretation of the Bible, that July 17th sunset Jerusalem time is the better of the two options. July 16th at sunset would be the time you were supposed to begin fasting and praying and mourning. So at that point there is no implied error in the fact that prior to this moment they weren't. but 24 hours later if they are still partying there is an implied insult to God.
Jesus said "blessed are those that mourn for they shall be comforted". This is very close to the very first word of the NT to us. So I think the rapture will be a comfort to those that mourn and a judgement on those that don't.
10 reasons for the rapture before the tribulation
1. Revelation 3:10 — Promise to keep us out of the hour of trial
2. Revelation 6:16, 1Thessalonians 5:9 — Church is not the object of God’s wrath
3. Luke 21:36 — Escape all these things (not endure) tribulation.
4. Luke 21:28 — When these things begin to happen look up. He doesn’t say to “look out” but to look up.
5. 2 Cor 5:20 — 1st thing you do when you are going to war is to call your ambassadors home.
6. 2 Thessalonians 2 — Restrainer removed before Antichrist.
7. Rapture takes place in the twinkling of an eye, not an extended activity.
8. Happens in the air, not on the earth
9. Woman in Revelation 12:5 is Israel, not the church. It is the body of the child that is caught up.
10. Marriage supper in Heaven takes place with the raptured before Revelation 19:11-14
10 Reasons for the Tribulation to begin this year
1. Fig tree generation is 70-80 years. From May 1948 that would be 2028. So then by May of 2028 the jews should see Jesus returning in great glory on the clouds. If the 70th week is 7 years the 70th week would have to begin this fall.
2. 2018 would be 70 years. That would be when Jesus came refers to the fig tree and seeking fruit for three years. On 2021 He would have said where is the fruit and the farmer would say "let me dung it this year". This is now the fourth year and it is called "the dung year" in Hebrew.
3. Psalm 48 describes the Jews returning to Israel, the 19th book, 48th chapter describes what took place in 1948. That tells us we are on the right path.
4. The 67th Psalm describes Jerusalem being returned to the Jews. So then the 19th book, 67th chapter describes what took place in 1967.
5. Psalm 48 describes this generation as "the terminal generation", the "last generation".
6. A rabbi prophesied about 500 years ago that during a Jubilee year what took place the Ottoman Turks and the Balfour declaration would take place. Then he said 50 years later Jerusalem would be returned to the Jews, it was in 1967. In 2017 would be the last jubilee year with Jerusalem being declared that it belongs to the Jews, this happened with Trump and the Abraham accords and moving the embassy to Jerusalem. He said that would be the last jubilee and then the end would come.
7. Everything is in place for the Mark of the Beast to be implemented. We can see the justification being the vaccine passport, we can see the collapse of currencies worldwide and the need to go to a digital currency, and we know they have the technology with Starlink sattelites, 5g, and Quantum computers.
8. Everything is in place for the great deception claiming that the rapture was an alien abduction.
9. We have had many prophecies saying that the US will be judged like Sodom and Gomorrah and the Great Babylon and that these judgments have already been issued, it is too late to pray they get delayed. Now it is simply a matter of executing them. We also had the prophecy about the seven cows with a seven year famine beginning this year.
10. The single best day for the spirit of Antichrist to be released is the 9th of Av (August 6th). It seems very hard to believe that China could hold off a collapse of their economy for another 12 months, we are already seeing a run on their banks and a mortgage crisis similar in scale to the US crisis in 2008. We also have Sri Lanka declaring bankruptcy along with 12 other countries ready to do the same.
1. Revelation 3:10 — Promise to keep us out of the hour of trial
2. Revelation 6:16, 1Thessalonians 5:9 — Church is not the object of God’s wrath
3. Luke 21:36 — Escape all these things (not endure) tribulation.
4. Luke 21:28 — When these things begin to happen look up. He doesn’t say to “look out” but to look up.
5. 2 Cor 5:20 — 1st thing you do when you are going to war is to call your ambassadors home.
6. 2 Thessalonians 2 — Restrainer removed before Antichrist.
7. Rapture takes place in the twinkling of an eye, not an extended activity.
8. Happens in the air, not on the earth
9. Woman in Revelation 12:5 is Israel, not the church. It is the body of the child that is caught up.
10. Marriage supper in Heaven takes place with the raptured before Revelation 19:11-14
10 Reasons for the Tribulation to begin this year
1. Fig tree generation is 70-80 years. From May 1948 that would be 2028. So then by May of 2028 the jews should see Jesus returning in great glory on the clouds. If the 70th week is 7 years the 70th week would have to begin this fall.
2. 2018 would be 70 years. That would be when Jesus came refers to the fig tree and seeking fruit for three years. On 2021 He would have said where is the fruit and the farmer would say "let me dung it this year". This is now the fourth year and it is called "the dung year" in Hebrew.
3. Psalm 48 describes the Jews returning to Israel, the 19th book, 48th chapter describes what took place in 1948. That tells us we are on the right path.
4. The 67th Psalm describes Jerusalem being returned to the Jews. So then the 19th book, 67th chapter describes what took place in 1967.
5. Psalm 48 describes this generation as "the terminal generation", the "last generation".
6. A rabbi prophesied about 500 years ago that during a Jubilee year what took place the Ottoman Turks and the Balfour declaration would take place. Then he said 50 years later Jerusalem would be returned to the Jews, it was in 1967. In 2017 would be the last jubilee year with Jerusalem being declared that it belongs to the Jews, this happened with Trump and the Abraham accords and moving the embassy to Jerusalem. He said that would be the last jubilee and then the end would come.
7. Everything is in place for the Mark of the Beast to be implemented. We can see the justification being the vaccine passport, we can see the collapse of currencies worldwide and the need to go to a digital currency, and we know they have the technology with Starlink sattelites, 5g, and Quantum computers.
8. Everything is in place for the great deception claiming that the rapture was an alien abduction.
9. We have had many prophecies saying that the US will be judged like Sodom and Gomorrah and the Great Babylon and that these judgments have already been issued, it is too late to pray they get delayed. Now it is simply a matter of executing them. We also had the prophecy about the seven cows with a seven year famine beginning this year.
10. The single best day for the spirit of Antichrist to be released is the 9th of Av (August 6th). It seems very hard to believe that China could hold off a collapse of their economy for another 12 months, we are already seeing a run on their banks and a mortgage crisis similar in scale to the US crisis in 2008. We also have Sri Lanka declaring bankruptcy along with 12 other countries ready to do the same.
This storm, church, does not pass by
https://rumble.com/v1ch7nr-wake-up-church-7-16-22404am.html
Wake up church, this is your last call, get up and prepare before your economy fully collapses, before the ten plagues of Egypt, before Rachel weeps twice, before Jacob's trouble, before the changing of the kings, before war rips open the world, before America is fully divided from within and without. These battles are coming to many, an ill prepared soldier who denies himself training will find the battles much harder that those who spent time diligently obeying my voice and following my words. To make your preparations.
Wake up church, my bride, those who are still sleeping. Wake up and see that your slothfulness has left you again ill prepared. For famine is full blown here waiting for my command to accelerate into overdrive.
What will you find yourself eating, your family eating when I told you to prepare.
Refusal to obey my instructions when you had the means, it is sin.
https://rumble.com/v1ch7nr-wake-up-church-7-16-22404am.html
Wake up church, this is your last call, get up and prepare before your economy fully collapses, before the ten plagues of Egypt, before Rachel weeps twice, before Jacob's trouble, before the changing of the kings, before war rips open the world, before America is fully divided from within and without. These battles are coming to many, an ill prepared soldier who denies himself training will find the battles much harder that those who spent time diligently obeying my voice and following my words. To make your preparations.
Wake up church, my bride, those who are still sleeping. Wake up and see that your slothfulness has left you again ill prepared. For famine is full blown here waiting for my command to accelerate into overdrive.
What will you find yourself eating, your family eating when I told you to prepare.
Refusal to obey my instructions when you had the means, it is sin.
Amos 1:1-15 -- The Sins of America
1 The words of Amos,
Joel means that Jehovah, He is God. That is the point of the festival of Trumpets and that is the point of the book of Joel. Amos means “burden” and it is reasonable for anyone to hear what God is about to do and to then wonder what is the burden, what is the cause for this. It is the burden of sin.
one of the shepherds of Tekoa—
As a school teacher I also feel like a shepherd.
the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
There is a distinction here between the people of God, some were of Judah and some were of Israel. My understanding of prophecy is similar to the golden ratio. I feel that you can look at a small event and see a big event in that. At the end of the age we know there will be a great earthquake and I am going to look at this prophecy as referring to a period 2 years before that earthquake, “the earthquake”. There are some similarities. Uzziah the king is puffed up with pride, invades the priests office and enters the temple to burn incense. He becomes leprous and it is thought that this event provoked God to bring about this earthquake. Likewise, at the end of the age, in the middle of the last week the son of perdition goes into the temple and sets himself up as god. At this time there is a great earthquake as the sixth seal is opened. So to my understanding Joel presents the beginning of this week mentioned in Daniel, and it begins in typology with the festival of trumpets. This festival takes place about two weeks before the end of the year in the Jewish calendar. After this festival the Israelites were to take stock of the year and consider their sins that they needed to make an account of. This takes place for ten days. That would signify the time it takes for a complete and thorough accounting of our responsibility before God. I believe this is what this two years signifies, the time right up until “the earthquake”, the sixth seal, where we are taking account of our sins prior to the day of atonement. This may seem confusing to those who have not studied end time prophecy, so I’ll briefly explain. I believe the end of the age is 7 years known as the tribulation. The first 3 ½ years are natural events. In the middle of this time we have this supernatural event referred to as “The earthquake” though it includes more than that. The second 3 ½ years is called “the Great Tribulation” and includes supernatural events. The book of Joel describes the start of this 7 year period and likens it to the festival of trumpets. Now we are in Amos and Amos helps us do a thorough accounting before God. We consider our sins, and we consider God’s great works in the past. We also see how God has been warning us but we have not heeded those warnings.
2 He said: “The Lord roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”
This is where we left off in Joel:16 “The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem”. So what is future tense in Joel is now present tense in Amos. Most commentaries focus on the historical and archaeological aspects of this prophecy. I don’t care about that. I want to reflect on our sins that we need to repent of, not what someone 2,000 years ago needed to repent of. This prophecy helps me run down the really big sins that we need be held accountable for.
3 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,
It is certain that this is referring to a cruel and barbarous way in which you treat your prisoners of war. In recent times I am aware that many countries are especially cruel with this and operate in a way that would be illegal in the US. Which is why US military intelligence often subcontracts out our interrogation to these countries. In the US we like to think of ourselves as more moral and more humane than these countries which use cruel forms of torture. Of course it was a shock to us to see what was happening at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and of course what was happening at Guantanamo Bay where we weren’t even observing Habeas Corpus. We were simply tossing them in jail and throwing away the key without so much as giving them a hearing or even admitting they were there. That was repeated again with the way the US treated the January 6th prisoners.
4 I will send fire on the house of Hazael that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad. 5 I will break down the gate of Damascus; I will destroy the king who is in the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord.
On the one hand if you have supported Amnesty International you should be happy, on the other hand there should be an uneasy feeling that if the Lord is judging these 3rd world nations for this behavior, what happens when He gets to us?
6 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. Because she took captive whole communities and sold them to Edom, 7 I will send fire on the walls of Gaza that will consume her fortresses. 8 I will destroy the king of Ashdod and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn my hand against Ekron, till the last of the Philistines are dead,” says the Sovereign Lord.
This sounds like imperialism. I did see something when I was in Taiwan. At the very same time that the cigarette companies were being exposed for having manipulated cigarettes as a drug to make the smokers addicted, at the exact same time that they were being sued and losing one of the largest cases in US history the US government was negotiating with Taiwan. The island of Taiwan needed F16s and AWACs to defend themselves, but as part of the trade the US government required that Taiwan sell American made cigarettes. At the very same time that they were putting laws in place to limit the sale of cigarettes in the US they were requiring smaller countries dependent on us for national security to buy them and sell them to their citizens. The US took captive whole communities and sold them to the cigarette companies.
9 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Tyre, even for four, I will not relent. Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom, disregarding a treaty of brotherhood, 10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre that will consume her fortresses.”
It isn’t hard to remember the US breaking treaties to sell entire communities. From 1778 to 1871, the United States government entered into more than 500 treaties with the Native American tribes; all of these treaties have since been violated in some way or outright broken by the US government.
11 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked, 12 I will send fire on Teman that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.”
There are genocides around the world. Rwanda, Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao spring to mind. But what about us? Do we need to list these? Sand Creek massacre, 163 men women and children were massacred by the Colorado militia. They were living in peace at the time. Three knolls massacre in California. Marias massacre in Montana, 173 killed primarily women, children and the elderly. Camp Grant massacre, killed 144 with all but 8 being women or children. Wounded Knee massacre killed around 250 men, women and children. This is but a few.
13 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent. Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders, 14 I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day. 15 Her king will go into exile, he and his officials together,” says the Lord.
It is estimated that the abortion industry brings in $1 billion a year. (https://www.culturallegacy.org/abortion-profit). In Bloodmoney, a documentary on abortion they show how one doctor made over $2 million a year by performing abortions. We know that abortions have targeted minorities and blacks.
1 The words of Amos,
Joel means that Jehovah, He is God. That is the point of the festival of Trumpets and that is the point of the book of Joel. Amos means “burden” and it is reasonable for anyone to hear what God is about to do and to then wonder what is the burden, what is the cause for this. It is the burden of sin.
one of the shepherds of Tekoa—
As a school teacher I also feel like a shepherd.
the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
There is a distinction here between the people of God, some were of Judah and some were of Israel. My understanding of prophecy is similar to the golden ratio. I feel that you can look at a small event and see a big event in that. At the end of the age we know there will be a great earthquake and I am going to look at this prophecy as referring to a period 2 years before that earthquake, “the earthquake”. There are some similarities. Uzziah the king is puffed up with pride, invades the priests office and enters the temple to burn incense. He becomes leprous and it is thought that this event provoked God to bring about this earthquake. Likewise, at the end of the age, in the middle of the last week the son of perdition goes into the temple and sets himself up as god. At this time there is a great earthquake as the sixth seal is opened. So to my understanding Joel presents the beginning of this week mentioned in Daniel, and it begins in typology with the festival of trumpets. This festival takes place about two weeks before the end of the year in the Jewish calendar. After this festival the Israelites were to take stock of the year and consider their sins that they needed to make an account of. This takes place for ten days. That would signify the time it takes for a complete and thorough accounting of our responsibility before God. I believe this is what this two years signifies, the time right up until “the earthquake”, the sixth seal, where we are taking account of our sins prior to the day of atonement. This may seem confusing to those who have not studied end time prophecy, so I’ll briefly explain. I believe the end of the age is 7 years known as the tribulation. The first 3 ½ years are natural events. In the middle of this time we have this supernatural event referred to as “The earthquake” though it includes more than that. The second 3 ½ years is called “the Great Tribulation” and includes supernatural events. The book of Joel describes the start of this 7 year period and likens it to the festival of trumpets. Now we are in Amos and Amos helps us do a thorough accounting before God. We consider our sins, and we consider God’s great works in the past. We also see how God has been warning us but we have not heeded those warnings.
2 He said: “The Lord roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”
This is where we left off in Joel:16 “The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem”. So what is future tense in Joel is now present tense in Amos. Most commentaries focus on the historical and archaeological aspects of this prophecy. I don’t care about that. I want to reflect on our sins that we need to repent of, not what someone 2,000 years ago needed to repent of. This prophecy helps me run down the really big sins that we need be held accountable for.
3 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,
It is certain that this is referring to a cruel and barbarous way in which you treat your prisoners of war. In recent times I am aware that many countries are especially cruel with this and operate in a way that would be illegal in the US. Which is why US military intelligence often subcontracts out our interrogation to these countries. In the US we like to think of ourselves as more moral and more humane than these countries which use cruel forms of torture. Of course it was a shock to us to see what was happening at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and of course what was happening at Guantanamo Bay where we weren’t even observing Habeas Corpus. We were simply tossing them in jail and throwing away the key without so much as giving them a hearing or even admitting they were there. That was repeated again with the way the US treated the January 6th prisoners.
4 I will send fire on the house of Hazael that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad. 5 I will break down the gate of Damascus; I will destroy the king who is in the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord.
On the one hand if you have supported Amnesty International you should be happy, on the other hand there should be an uneasy feeling that if the Lord is judging these 3rd world nations for this behavior, what happens when He gets to us?
6 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. Because she took captive whole communities and sold them to Edom, 7 I will send fire on the walls of Gaza that will consume her fortresses. 8 I will destroy the king of Ashdod and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn my hand against Ekron, till the last of the Philistines are dead,” says the Sovereign Lord.
This sounds like imperialism. I did see something when I was in Taiwan. At the very same time that the cigarette companies were being exposed for having manipulated cigarettes as a drug to make the smokers addicted, at the exact same time that they were being sued and losing one of the largest cases in US history the US government was negotiating with Taiwan. The island of Taiwan needed F16s and AWACs to defend themselves, but as part of the trade the US government required that Taiwan sell American made cigarettes. At the very same time that they were putting laws in place to limit the sale of cigarettes in the US they were requiring smaller countries dependent on us for national security to buy them and sell them to their citizens. The US took captive whole communities and sold them to the cigarette companies.
9 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Tyre, even for four, I will not relent. Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom, disregarding a treaty of brotherhood, 10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre that will consume her fortresses.”
It isn’t hard to remember the US breaking treaties to sell entire communities. From 1778 to 1871, the United States government entered into more than 500 treaties with the Native American tribes; all of these treaties have since been violated in some way or outright broken by the US government.
11 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked, 12 I will send fire on Teman that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.”
There are genocides around the world. Rwanda, Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao spring to mind. But what about us? Do we need to list these? Sand Creek massacre, 163 men women and children were massacred by the Colorado militia. They were living in peace at the time. Three knolls massacre in California. Marias massacre in Montana, 173 killed primarily women, children and the elderly. Camp Grant massacre, killed 144 with all but 8 being women or children. Wounded Knee massacre killed around 250 men, women and children. This is but a few.
13 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent. Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders, 14 I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day. 15 Her king will go into exile, he and his officials together,” says the Lord.
It is estimated that the abortion industry brings in $1 billion a year. (https://www.culturallegacy.org/abortion-profit). In Bloodmoney, a documentary on abortion they show how one doctor made over $2 million a year by performing abortions. We know that abortions have targeted minorities and blacks.
Amos 2 -- The Sins of America, let's be fair
2 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent. Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king, 2 I will send fire on Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet. 3 I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the Lord.
Wow, what a relief! Thank you Jesus! Whenever someone starts enumerating the sins of the US I always dread that they will bring up slavery. Is that fair? First of all not all the states had slavery, and then in the ones that did only 25% of the people had slaves, and then when you are talking about plantation owners with 100 or more slaves it was only about 3%. So is it really fair to go back several hundred years and dig up some cursed plantation owner and say the entire US is cursed because of this guy? Even God, right here in Amos condemns doing that! Of course slavery was cursed, but were these men who were made in the image of God cursed because of the US, or were they cursed by God? Oh yeah, Moab, they were amateurs, they only went back one or two generations to justify themselves, we went back much further than that. We went back to before there even was a New World, before Jesus, hey we even went back before Moses, we went all the way back to Noah. We went back to Noah and dug up Ham, and believe it or not, that is why all these people thousands of years later were cursed! Did we stop there? No, no, no we then brought out our witch doctors with their mumbo jumbo science as a racial justification. Burning bones to ash? That is kid’s stuff. We put those ashes into baby food. By the 1950s you could put two dolls before a young child, one black the other white, and ask which is the pretty one, which is the smart one, which is the good one and they would point to the white doll. Which one looks like you? They would point to the black doll. Which one is ugly and stupid? They would point to the black doll. Do you really think this generation will escape the judgement and wrath of God?
4 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed, 5 I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”
The US claims to be a Christian nation that trusts in God. His commandment was to love our neighbor as ourselves. Torture, violating treaties, hunting down and killing women and children, selling communities to the highest bidder, and cursing man made in the image of God are all examples of rejecting that law. Money and power are false gods that have led this nation astray.
Judgment on Israel 6 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.
Where was your phone made? How about your slippers? You want to blame covid on China, a poor country eating bats and living in crowded conditions, yet you don’t blame the sweatshops that you buy from for creating these conditions.
7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed.
Build the wall. Not so that we can keep illegal immigrants out because if we did that who would do all the menial tasks we don’t want to do. No, we build the wall so that we can deny justice to the oppressed. You don’t like the oppression, fine, we’ll send you back to the other side of the wall.
Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.
Is this true? Some things I am glad I don’t know about. I recently heard that the value of the child trafficking industry in the US is greater than all professional sports taken together!
8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge.
The law in the OT said you had to give the pledge of a garment to the poor at night so they could sleep and not be cold. The Lord is saying that they put the poor out into the cold and take their pledge, their downpayment. This is precisely what happened during the Mortgage crisis. People paid for their house for a couple of years, then a balloon mortgage kicked in, they couldn’t pay, the bank took back their house, keeping the money they had paid for about 5 years as well as their downpayment. For example, suppose they sold you the house with an incredible mortgage of $1,200 a month. But after five years your mortgage balloons to $2,400 a month. You scraped by for 5 years paying your mortgage, that came to $72,000 to the bank. Then you can't afford the mortgage, they foreclose, the bank is now $72,000 richer and they have the house back to sell to someone else.
In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
I worked for a bank and learned that the overdraft fees and other “fines” were their bread and butter. I once saw a person who had written ten small checks for a total of about $100. If the checks had been paid out in the order they were received one would have bounced, but by paying the big one first, and then bouncing the next biggest one, they were able to cause the other nine checks to bounce because of the fees. This person had to pay $75 in bounced check fees because of the clever way in which they paid out the checks. Sadly the money to cover these checks had been deposited, it just hadn’t cleared yet. Cheers! Salud!
9 “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.
There were two main battles, in the wilderness the children of Israel asked for permission to pass through the land of the Amorites and they refused, instead coming out with their full army to attack them. Israel defeated them which was a great sign to all the nations round about. Later, in the good land 5 kings of the Amorites came out to attack Joshua and that was the day the sun stood still so he could finish the battle. You saw what God did to these people who you have dispossessed and now you have taken their place. Why would you imitate them? We defeated Britain, the superpower of the day, a leader in banking and finance, and then we imitated them!
10 I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites. 11 “I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?” declares the Lord. 12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
There have been many great spiritual leaders in the US. There is no denying that. It is also true that we have laws that forbid the word of God in schools. No prayer, no bible studies, no name of Jesus, no word of God. But how did they “make the Nazarites” drink wine? That is a violation of their vow. I suspect this is much like the Lord’s word: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (Matt 23:13) We now know that many churches have been bought up by FreeMasons to control the word they speak.
13 “Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.
Many times the poor feel like the system is designed to run them over like a truck. So, as you have done it will be done to you.
14 The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. 15 The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life. 16 Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day,” declares the Lord.
You have designed a system so that the poor are trapped, so loaded up with pressures they can’t escape. A system so confusing the poor don’t know how to even use their strength to save their life. I recently wanted to pay off the car for my wife, feeling that eliminating this debt would make our financial situation more secure. She was against it, she wanted to keep the money in reserve in the event of an emergency. I did the math, I showed her that paying it off now would save her $700. She was stunned, she had no idea how the system was designed. The archer has a nice distance between him and the battle, when you lose your house they give you a month, two months, even three months warning. But in the end you lose your shirt and wind up fleeing naked. As they have done it will be done to you.
2 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent. Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king, 2 I will send fire on Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet. 3 I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the Lord.
Wow, what a relief! Thank you Jesus! Whenever someone starts enumerating the sins of the US I always dread that they will bring up slavery. Is that fair? First of all not all the states had slavery, and then in the ones that did only 25% of the people had slaves, and then when you are talking about plantation owners with 100 or more slaves it was only about 3%. So is it really fair to go back several hundred years and dig up some cursed plantation owner and say the entire US is cursed because of this guy? Even God, right here in Amos condemns doing that! Of course slavery was cursed, but were these men who were made in the image of God cursed because of the US, or were they cursed by God? Oh yeah, Moab, they were amateurs, they only went back one or two generations to justify themselves, we went back much further than that. We went back to before there even was a New World, before Jesus, hey we even went back before Moses, we went all the way back to Noah. We went back to Noah and dug up Ham, and believe it or not, that is why all these people thousands of years later were cursed! Did we stop there? No, no, no we then brought out our witch doctors with their mumbo jumbo science as a racial justification. Burning bones to ash? That is kid’s stuff. We put those ashes into baby food. By the 1950s you could put two dolls before a young child, one black the other white, and ask which is the pretty one, which is the smart one, which is the good one and they would point to the white doll. Which one looks like you? They would point to the black doll. Which one is ugly and stupid? They would point to the black doll. Do you really think this generation will escape the judgement and wrath of God?
4 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed, 5 I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”
The US claims to be a Christian nation that trusts in God. His commandment was to love our neighbor as ourselves. Torture, violating treaties, hunting down and killing women and children, selling communities to the highest bidder, and cursing man made in the image of God are all examples of rejecting that law. Money and power are false gods that have led this nation astray.
Judgment on Israel 6 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.
Where was your phone made? How about your slippers? You want to blame covid on China, a poor country eating bats and living in crowded conditions, yet you don’t blame the sweatshops that you buy from for creating these conditions.
7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed.
Build the wall. Not so that we can keep illegal immigrants out because if we did that who would do all the menial tasks we don’t want to do. No, we build the wall so that we can deny justice to the oppressed. You don’t like the oppression, fine, we’ll send you back to the other side of the wall.
Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.
Is this true? Some things I am glad I don’t know about. I recently heard that the value of the child trafficking industry in the US is greater than all professional sports taken together!
8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge.
The law in the OT said you had to give the pledge of a garment to the poor at night so they could sleep and not be cold. The Lord is saying that they put the poor out into the cold and take their pledge, their downpayment. This is precisely what happened during the Mortgage crisis. People paid for their house for a couple of years, then a balloon mortgage kicked in, they couldn’t pay, the bank took back their house, keeping the money they had paid for about 5 years as well as their downpayment. For example, suppose they sold you the house with an incredible mortgage of $1,200 a month. But after five years your mortgage balloons to $2,400 a month. You scraped by for 5 years paying your mortgage, that came to $72,000 to the bank. Then you can't afford the mortgage, they foreclose, the bank is now $72,000 richer and they have the house back to sell to someone else.
In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
I worked for a bank and learned that the overdraft fees and other “fines” were their bread and butter. I once saw a person who had written ten small checks for a total of about $100. If the checks had been paid out in the order they were received one would have bounced, but by paying the big one first, and then bouncing the next biggest one, they were able to cause the other nine checks to bounce because of the fees. This person had to pay $75 in bounced check fees because of the clever way in which they paid out the checks. Sadly the money to cover these checks had been deposited, it just hadn’t cleared yet. Cheers! Salud!
9 “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.
There were two main battles, in the wilderness the children of Israel asked for permission to pass through the land of the Amorites and they refused, instead coming out with their full army to attack them. Israel defeated them which was a great sign to all the nations round about. Later, in the good land 5 kings of the Amorites came out to attack Joshua and that was the day the sun stood still so he could finish the battle. You saw what God did to these people who you have dispossessed and now you have taken their place. Why would you imitate them? We defeated Britain, the superpower of the day, a leader in banking and finance, and then we imitated them!
10 I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites. 11 “I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?” declares the Lord. 12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
There have been many great spiritual leaders in the US. There is no denying that. It is also true that we have laws that forbid the word of God in schools. No prayer, no bible studies, no name of Jesus, no word of God. But how did they “make the Nazarites” drink wine? That is a violation of their vow. I suspect this is much like the Lord’s word: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (Matt 23:13) We now know that many churches have been bought up by FreeMasons to control the word they speak.
13 “Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.
Many times the poor feel like the system is designed to run them over like a truck. So, as you have done it will be done to you.
14 The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. 15 The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life. 16 Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day,” declares the Lord.
You have designed a system so that the poor are trapped, so loaded up with pressures they can’t escape. A system so confusing the poor don’t know how to even use their strength to save their life. I recently wanted to pay off the car for my wife, feeling that eliminating this debt would make our financial situation more secure. She was against it, she wanted to keep the money in reserve in the event of an emergency. I did the math, I showed her that paying it off now would save her $700. She was stunned, she had no idea how the system was designed. The archer has a nice distance between him and the battle, when you lose your house they give you a month, two months, even three months warning. But in the end you lose your shirt and wind up fleeing naked. As they have done it will be done to you.
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2 Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
We are ambassadors of the Kingdom, we are here appealing to unbelievers to receive the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and be reconciled to God. However, at the end of the age the situation becomes so lawless that it is just like the days of Noah with the Nephilim and demon worship and it is just like Sodom and Gomorrah with their lawlessness. At that point God will pull the ambassadors out (rapture) and then His judgement will rain down on this earth.
We are ambassadors of the Kingdom, we are here appealing to unbelievers to receive the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and be reconciled to God. However, at the end of the age the situation becomes so lawless that it is just like the days of Noah with the Nephilim and demon worship and it is just like Sodom and Gomorrah with their lawlessness. At that point God will pull the ambassadors out (rapture) and then His judgement will rain down on this earth.
One world religion -- a sign
I have seen some were not aware that we were heading to one world religion. Ecumenism and the recent actions of the pope are clearly moving in this direction.
The antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation in the temple.
Matthew 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
During the Tribulation people either worship God or they worship idols and demons
Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
All the inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast
Revelation 13:8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
Look at what happened ever since the Roe V. Wade decision was overturned. People are responding as though their religion was attacked. It is turning into a "unholy" war. They want to punish cities like St. Louis economically because in Missouri abortion is illegal. St. Louis sits on the border with Illinois where abortion is legal. So this is not a matter of practicality, it takes ten minutes to get to Illinois, this is a matter of punishing anyone who does not agree with their god. The battle is not between believers and atheists, that was always a cloak. The battle is between believers and Satanists. Child sacrifice and blood sacrifice is part of their religion. They like, they need, mass shooting. 9/11 was a human sacrifice to Satan.
I have seen some were not aware that we were heading to one world religion. Ecumenism and the recent actions of the pope are clearly moving in this direction.
The antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation in the temple.
Matthew 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
During the Tribulation people either worship God or they worship idols and demons
Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
All the inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast
Revelation 13:8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
Look at what happened ever since the Roe V. Wade decision was overturned. People are responding as though their religion was attacked. It is turning into a "unholy" war. They want to punish cities like St. Louis economically because in Missouri abortion is illegal. St. Louis sits on the border with Illinois where abortion is legal. So this is not a matter of practicality, it takes ten minutes to get to Illinois, this is a matter of punishing anyone who does not agree with their god. The battle is not between believers and atheists, that was always a cloak. The battle is between believers and Satanists. Child sacrifice and blood sacrifice is part of their religion. They like, they need, mass shooting. 9/11 was a human sacrifice to Satan.
Prophecies concerning Israel fulfilled
Someone asked for these prophecies.
Isaiah 66:8 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Jeremiah 30:3 3 The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the Lord.”
Isaiah 43:5-6“Fear not; for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth, even every one that is called by my name…”
Ezekiel 34:11-13 “Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. “As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. “And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land…”
Deuteronomy 30:1-4 “And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God hath driven thee, “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, “That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations where the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. “If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee.”
Someone asked for these prophecies.
Isaiah 66:8 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Jeremiah 30:3 3 The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the Lord.”
Isaiah 43:5-6“Fear not; for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth, even every one that is called by my name…”
Ezekiel 34:11-13 “Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. “As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. “And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land…”
Deuteronomy 30:1-4 “And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God hath driven thee, “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, “That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations where the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. “If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee.”
My Spirit will not contend with humans forever
Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
2Thessalonians 2:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
The day that the Spirit stops striving with the lawless one, stops holding back the lawless one, the day the Spirit is taken out of the way is what God was talking about when He talked to Noah. Removing that covering of the Spirit is what Adam and Eve realized when they sinned and realized they were naked.
Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
2Thessalonians 2:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
The day that the Spirit stops striving with the lawless one, stops holding back the lawless one, the day the Spirit is taken out of the way is what God was talking about when He talked to Noah. Removing that covering of the Spirit is what Adam and Eve realized when they sinned and realized they were naked.
Do not Mock and Scoff at the significance of the Mark of the Beast
I have heard Christians mocking and scoffing at the idea that the government would know everything you have ever bought and even everywhere you are (your phone pings every 15 minutes).
During the Tribulation you will be required to get the Mark of the Beast in order to buy and sell and if you refuse to worship the Beast you will get your head chopped off. Prior to that the government will create a file on each person, it will show all their friends via social media. They will know if you attend church and which church it is and they will get all the members of that church via social media and create a web of all their friends, all your posts, everything you have said. They will know your daily routine, everything.
So when the time comes to label people who refuse to worship the beast as subversive they will know everything about you. They will know everywhere you have gone in the last 20 years. If they decide to shut down these dangerous rebel organizations that are teaching "Jesus is Lord" or "there is no other name in which you can be saved" then this information will be very helpful.
I have heard Christians mocking and scoffing at the idea that the government would know everything you have ever bought and even everywhere you are (your phone pings every 15 minutes).
During the Tribulation you will be required to get the Mark of the Beast in order to buy and sell and if you refuse to worship the Beast you will get your head chopped off. Prior to that the government will create a file on each person, it will show all their friends via social media. They will know if you attend church and which church it is and they will get all the members of that church via social media and create a web of all their friends, all your posts, everything you have said. They will know your daily routine, everything.
So when the time comes to label people who refuse to worship the beast as subversive they will know everything about you. They will know everywhere you have gone in the last 20 years. If they decide to shut down these dangerous rebel organizations that are teaching "Jesus is Lord" or "there is no other name in which you can be saved" then this information will be very helpful.
Come out from her my people and don't partake of her plagues.
Everyone in the church in Philadelphia came out from one of the previous 5 churches which is why one of the promises is that they will not need to go out anymore.
The other churches tolerate Jezebel, they have false prophets like Balaam, they are where Satan's seat is, they are dying and are full of pretense, and the Lord even calls them "the synagogue of Satan". They provide an opportunity for the genuine believers to grow, to mature, to overcome. They learn to return to their first love, to not love their life unto death, to be against all that is contrary to the Lord.
Those that refuse to come out of these corrupt and dead churches become Laodicea.
Everyone in the church in Philadelphia came out from one of the previous 5 churches which is why one of the promises is that they will not need to go out anymore.
The other churches tolerate Jezebel, they have false prophets like Balaam, they are where Satan's seat is, they are dying and are full of pretense, and the Lord even calls them "the synagogue of Satan". They provide an opportunity for the genuine believers to grow, to mature, to overcome. They learn to return to their first love, to not love their life unto death, to be against all that is contrary to the Lord.
Those that refuse to come out of these corrupt and dead churches become Laodicea.
Speak not evil one of another
https://rumble.com/v1cqhop-a-harsh-warning-and-a-word-of-encouragement-7-18-224-57am.html
Lord we are asking you to come in and do all that you need to do in judging the evil one and in turning people to Jesus. Lord we need you to wake up any saints who are still sleeping. Lord we pray the backslidden saints would be reignited and fanned into flames. We pray that those who are trying to pursue you and be faithful to you would be encouraged and strengthened in their pursuit.
Oh look, look and see, I have declared it, I have decreed it.
Man plays games with one another, I do not.
I am making a dividing which reaches down from heaven. Touch not my anointed.
Water into blood.
I am sending warning to all my children who will listen. Tell me wagging tongues and backbiting tongues, why can't I see the difference between those who claim to be children of God from those who are Satan's children?
Are you willing to spend the time seeking my face, listening to me speak?
Tell me O people with wagging tongues and pointing fingers, when did you become the accuser of the brethren?
https://rumble.com/v1cqhop-a-harsh-warning-and-a-word-of-encouragement-7-18-224-57am.html
Lord we are asking you to come in and do all that you need to do in judging the evil one and in turning people to Jesus. Lord we need you to wake up any saints who are still sleeping. Lord we pray the backslidden saints would be reignited and fanned into flames. We pray that those who are trying to pursue you and be faithful to you would be encouraged and strengthened in their pursuit.
Oh look, look and see, I have declared it, I have decreed it.
Man plays games with one another, I do not.
I am making a dividing which reaches down from heaven. Touch not my anointed.
Water into blood.
I am sending warning to all my children who will listen. Tell me wagging tongues and backbiting tongues, why can't I see the difference between those who claim to be children of God from those who are Satan's children?
Are you willing to spend the time seeking my face, listening to me speak?
Tell me O people with wagging tongues and pointing fingers, when did you become the accuser of the brethren?